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A History of the County of Oxford
… prominent in town affairs, the Batts running a private lunatic asylum on High Street from 1823 to 1857. 98 A bank …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to 1857 later members of the Batt family ran a private lunatic asylum in Witney at No. 33 High Street (Field House). …
A History of the County of Essex
… of lunatics, the more violent ones being sent to private asylums. In 1775, following outbreaks of smallpox, a doctor …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… was regarded as a national calamity, was the work of a lunatic, who had secreted himself in the cathedral, after the … relief, and is liberally supported by subscription. The Lunatic Asylum, without Bootham Bar, was established in 1774, …